X-COM XCOM 2 + War of the Chosen Expansion Thread

[ArchAngel]

The moral is that Firaxis are decline bringers who chose to make a subpar game.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Sykar]

I almost never advance fast because then I will activate some random pod, which will REPOSITION to th best possible current cover. Which menas that next turn my frontliners will soak up all skills, some of which will instantly disable them, like sneks do. So nuXcom2 wanted to promore more agressive gameplay but succeded only in promoting passive-agressive gameplay, where players try their best to negate degeneracy of this crappy pod activation system.

I was really hoping they would make away with the stupid pods in X-Com 2. What a disappointment.

 

[Fedora Master]

Somehow I already know these not-Zombies will be pure bullshit and/or annoying as fuck, just like the champion enemies.

 

[Jaedar]

Somehow I already know these not-Zombies will be pure bullshit and/or annoying as fuck, just like the champion enemies.

They look completely harmless to me. Slap some clip size++ mags on a soldier with high accuracy and you'll be taking them out easily and in huge numbers.

 

[luinthoron]

Somehow I already know these not-Zombies will be pure bullshit and/or annoying as fuck, just like the champion enemies.

They look completely harmless to me. Slap some clip size++ mags on a soldier with high accuracy and you'll be taking them out easily and in huge numbers.

And once you have better pistols, you can just have your Sharpshooter keep shooting them forever...

 

[Jaedar]

Somehow I already know these not-Zombies will be pure bullshit and/or annoying as fuck, just like the champion enemies.

They look completely harmless to me. Slap some clip size++ mags on a soldier with high accuracy and you'll be taking them out easily and in huge numbers.

And once you have better pistols, you can just have your Sharpshooter keep shooting them forever...

To me it looked like the "headshot" action was a special one, different from regular shoot, so there's no guarantee it can be pistolled. Obviously, if it can, that will completely trivialize the whole endeavour as long as your pistol damage is high enough.

 

[Fedora Master]

I simply assume Firaxis will try to add more lolrandumb shit with the expansion and these zombies somehow spawning on top of your is one way to do that. They won't just make them cannon fodder, that much is certain.

 

[luinthoron]

Somehow I already know these not-Zombies will be pure bullshit and/or annoying as fuck, just like the champion enemies.

They look completely harmless to me. Slap some clip size++ mags on a soldier with high accuracy and you'll be taking them out easily and in huge numbers.

And once you have better pistols, you can just have your Sharpshooter keep shooting them forever...

To me it looked like the "headshot" action was a special one, different from regular shoot, so there's no guarantee it can be pistolled. Obviously, if it can, that will completely trivialize the whole endeavour as long as your pistol damage is high enough.

I could swear I've seen pistols usable for this in at least one of the previews. Ah, there we go.

 

[Mazisky]

The moral is that internal parties can dumb down a game to the point where imbeciles like Mazisky would jizz all over it.

The moral is no matter what devs do, you will complain anyway. Expecially when there is a big producer behind. This behaviour it's so old that it isn't even edgy anymore.

 

[oldmanpaco]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

 

[Zep Zepo]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

Because...Reasons.

Zep--

 

[Jaedar]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

That's obvious.

Because people will pay for it.

 

[Space Satan]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

 

[Raghar]

As many times as it takes for you to learn not to quote "entire article" posts.

Why not? When he quotes entire article, author of the article can't change it to sound more politically correct, and his shame would live forever.

 

[luinthoron]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

You are confusing a full expansion for the small cheap DLC you're used to these days. Expansions have always been priced close to full games, nothing new about that.

 

[Jaedar]

Has it already been explained why they are charging $40 for DLC?

You are confusing a full expansion for the small cheap DLC you're used to these days. Expansions have always been priced close to full games, nothing new about that.

I rate this post fake news.

Expansion packs used to be half the price of a new game.

 

[Infinitron]

 

[Space Satan]

Fuckshitcunt. The enemies represent the worst Firaxis philosophy of making a nuXcom. Add more enemies with abilities that are kill-or-lose. And make combat even more dependant of your ability to wipe pods in one turn. You killed all those aliens with shitload of disabling abilities - you win, you failed to do so - half of your soldiers are disabled, unconcious etc. rest panicked. This is a true faggotry, turning strategy game into a puzzle, where you have to search for perfect solution every turn. Because failure means teamwipe, and teamwipe on higher difficulties mean restarting.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Wiping pods in one turn also have another big problem, you won't see enemies speicial abilities and attacks.
I was shocked when some commander "marked" one of my team beacuse of unlucky miss streak, after 4-5 months of in game ...

 

[Raghar]

Wiping pods in one turn also have another big problem, you won't see enemies speicial abilities and attacks.
I was shocked when some commander "marked" one of my team beacuse of unlucky miss streak, after 4-5 months of in game ...

I thought they are marking stuff in GATECRASHER, which is the bane of all one turn alphastrike kill pod players. It's weird you didn't see it once.

 

[bonescraper]

Fuckshitcunt. The enemies represent the worst Firaxis philosophy of making a nuXcom. Add more enemies with abilities that are kill-or-lose. And make combat even more dependant of your ability to wipe pods in one turn. You killed all those aliens with shitload of disabling abilities - you win, you failed to do so - half of your soldiers are disabled, unconcious etc. rest panicked. This is a true faggotry, turning strategy game into a puzzle, where you have to search for perfect solution every turn. Because failure means teamwipe, and teamwipe on higher difficulties mean restarting.

Eh not really. These new enemies are just new enemies, and the Priest is a re-skinned Sectoid Commander. Remember that your guys will also get a boost.

 

[ArchAngel]

Shitty expansion is a shitty expansion. Hopefully LW2 guys get paid again to fix it like they did with Xcom 2 vanilla.

 

[Mazisky]

Wiping pods in one turn also have another big problem, you won't see enemies speicial abilities and attacks.
I was shocked when some commander "marked" one of my team beacuse of unlucky miss streak, after 4-5 months of in game ...

There is a new option that doubles the HP of all units, this may allow longer firefights and the chance to see abilities without instawhipe

 

[Space Satan]

Eh not really. These new enemies are just new enemies, and the Priest is a re-skinned Sectoid Commander. Remember that your guys will also get a boost.

You guys are limited in number. When faced by a combat of 3 vipers they can disable half of your squad right away. All the while with turn timer ticking which means ~2 turn will go for saving incapacitated teammates and returning them to shape.